Simulators & sustained lateral acceleration

[Tommy Cookers]

.....It would take a serious simulator to incorporate these actually felt forces .
......Funnily enough, the inner ear training that results - seems to help with balance/orientation when walking in the dark,
doing martial arts practice - or even when eyes are held shut due to shampoo in the shower - just as well..

even in motorcycling, your sense of balance will creep away in whiteout conditions, or severe fog/darkness

many thousands of fatalities (to pilots relying on their 'inner ear training') proved the need for flying by reliable references
here in the UK many would believe this was the cause of the McRae and Hislop fatal accidents

flight schools will let you do try 'instrument appreciation' for $100 (you actually turning an actual plane in actual flight)
you will 'eyes closed' be unable to return from a turn to level flight after 5 seconds of turn (though able after 3 or 4 seconds)

99% of aviation simulators are for normal flying ie at g increments less than 1g
the other 1% could reproduce your motorcycle-level g
there was one available at the (national aeropace ?) museum near NASA Langley
25cents for an automated F-4 pattern from a carrier, catapult launch to arrested landing (no you don't get the full 4 g of that bit)
the efficacy of the simulation was a revelation

[J.A.W.]

TC, you can probably add JFK junior to that list of pilots who fatally lost attitude orientation,
& there is the notorious case of the Air NZ DC 10 blindly flying smack into the side of Mt Erebus in `79,
albeit in that instance, the skipper was let down by his instrumentation, which had been wrongly programmed..

See below: Jetsprint - a motorsport which features high lateral G, & calls for excellent inner ear abilities..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qUPtNKicAs